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Ketamine Karen, Dopamine Dame Here via Tehran/KU/Yale/Pitt author of KETAMINE https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542241/ and a lot of good papers https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WNB2KvkAAAAJ&hl=en

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · Jan 16

An amazing honor to give NIH’s WALS lecture today as the last speaker under the leadership of NIH Director Dr Monica Bertagnolli

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Leslie B Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall.bsky.social · 8h

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 10h

Ah, a classic moment of @nature.com recognizing the scientific contributions of both genders: man and machine.

Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 11h

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 7h

ordering at restaurants in Portland is a complex process that could take a long time, especially for brunch when one needs to find out how happy are the hens that laid the eggs, which bakery made the bread....

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 13h

if you really want to rip on Portland you should start with how busy breakfast places are at 9:30 on a weekday

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 8h

clearly the real pathology here is placenta envy 🙃

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 14h

Sorry UNC but as a Patriots hater, I love this fiasco

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 15h

Well, I hope you informed the speaker that gut microbiome is highly controlled by free will and asked if he had yogurt and fruit or doughnuts for breakfast 😁

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 15h

had assumed PA was safe because it voted for the current admin but I guess not Allegheny county

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Katharina Schmack @kathaschmack.bsky.social · 15h

📢 Join us at the Crick to start your lab!

💸 Generous core funding to give your ideas wings
🔬 Outstanding facilities to realise your nerdiest dreams
🙌 Supportive colleagues who lift you and your science up

Happy to answer questions! Please repost!

The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 16h

We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.

Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.

Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 1d

I’m extremely honored to be a recipient of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award!

Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social on receiving the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, celebrating “scientists with outstanding records of creativity.” His lab will explore how the sense of touch can help build relationships. 🫶🧠💡

See zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/zuckerman-in...

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 1d

"A Palestinian, son of Palestinians displaced from Gaza (Al-Masmiyya) to Jordan, wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry... Professor Omar Munis Yaghi from the University of Berkeley!!

..Some members of the Yaghi family are still under the rubble in Gaza!"

- Jacob Hanna

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 2d

Only 69?!

Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 2d

This checks out. Walked by the PDX ICE building today on way to doc appt. Saw 10 reporters and 6 demonstrators, two of whom were blowing bubbles 😅

(Doc appt btw was a routine derm 5-yr check up because I have family history of basal cell carcinoma and have the privilege of having health insurance)

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

From the front lines of the Portland War Zone.

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 2d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 2d

Very happy to share our new paper in Biological Psychiatry, showing that Urolithin A reverses high anxiety by repairing mitochondrial function in the nucleus accumbens.

Big kudos to first co-authors David Mallet & Doğukan Ülgen, our amazing team, and collaborators!

🔗 Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 3d

I know the news is tough right now.

So take a moment and soak in the gorgeousness & promise of the science that led to this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine & Physiology.

WOW.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/h...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Work on Immune Systems

www.nytimes.com

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 3d

Even more informative for me is that Tolstoy, Chekhov, Proust, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf never won the Nobel in literature, and don’t get me started on Mahatma Gandhi never winning the peace prize despite being nominated 5 times

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 4d

Looking forward to it

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Katharina Schmack @kathaschmack.bsky.social · 7d

Excited to speak in San Diego on Nov 14 at this SfN Sattelite!

If you're curious about cross-species approaches to #psychedelics, #hallucinations and #consciousness, join us! 🐀👤🧠

Limited spots, register here:
hopkinspsychedelic.org/sfn2025

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 4d

Good

Portlandia “likes democracy neat, no ICE please”

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Immergut has *granted* Oregon and California's motion to block the new call-up of Guard troops to Portland. She says this effort to bring CA and TX troops to Oregon is in "direct contravention" of her oroginal order.

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry Mike. Better team lost mostly because they were outcoached…

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 10d

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 10d

30% drop year over year!

Amid visa restrictions, international freshmen enrollment plummets at UW-Madison

This year’s number of international freshmen is the lowest recorded since at least 2015.

www.jsonline.com

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Alicia Izquierdo @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social · 11d

Too bad no mention of the Crespi Effect, dependent on basolateral amygdala. Classic 🏆 ibotenic lesion and lidocaine inactivation papers by Salinas, Packard, and McGaugh, 1993; Salinas, Parent, and McGaugh, 1996 could have been cited.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Stimulus-specific and adaptive value representations in the basolateral amygdala in male mice - Nature Communications

How basolateral amygdala represents the specific value of rewards remains unclear. Here the authors find that basolateral amygdala neurons assign stimulus-specific values to different rewards and rapidly re-scale these signals with changing reward context, thirst or stress, illuminating how the brain guides flexible, state-dependent choices.

www.nature.com

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 12d

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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 12d

Federal Troops Arrive in Portland and Immediately Form Bands

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 15d

Link to HHMI preprint mandate hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/policies/Imm...

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